It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and…

Ayn Rand
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It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). Atlas Shrugged, p.17, Penguin
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It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark. ✨ Ayn Rand (2005). Atlas Shrugged, p.17, Penguin

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